The published Pennsylvania Archives consists of 138 volumes divided into ten
series. They were printed between 1838 and 1935 and contain transcribed
documents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from the seventeenth eighteenth,
and nineteenth centuries. These books are invaluable to the Pennsylvania
researcher, containing the papers of the Colonial government and its governors,
as well as military records, church records, land records, election returns,
diaries and journals, naturalizations, marriages, oaths of allegiance, pension
applications, maps, portraits, and tax lists.

Tax lists are valuable tools for placing landowners and non-landowners in a
geographic location where other records may be found. The lists published in
volumes 11-22 of the Pennsylvania Archives Third Series cover the period 1765
through 1791 for the counties of Allegheny, Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Chester,
Cumberland, Fayette, Huntingdon, Lancaster, Northampton, Northumberland,
Philadelphia, Washington, Westmoreland, and York. Retrospect Publishing, which
previously published each volume on individual CD-ROMs, has now placed the 12
volumes on one searchable disk.

With great anticipation of tapping into such a wealth of knowledge on my own
computer, I sailed through the installation without a hitch. After opening the
CD Library, a Retrospector screen displays a scanned image at the right and
navigation tools at the top and left. I recommend reading the beginning material
listed under the contents tab. It explains search considerations, wildcards,
lists of abbreviations, surname and spelling variations, and name order. Found
in the discussion of evolving county boundaries is a chart detailing the tax
years included for each county, and a series of Pennsylvania maps showing the
boundary changes. These last two items are invaluable in understanding what
areas were included in these volumes since each person is recorded in the
township and county in which he resided at the time of the taxation.

Retrospect has enhanced the search capability by providing translations for
certain contractions, which are given in a table in the Publisher’s Notes. A
search for "Weygand" and "blacksmith" gave two results, one
for Peter Weygand, "b’s" and one for "b’smith." Without
enhancement to the search engine, these abbreviations would not have been seen
and the search would have failed. In the moderate-level search mode a built-in
Soundex converter may be used for any word including given names. Searching for
"Eberhard" through this converter also yields "Everhart" and
all variations in between. The proximity of any set of words is adjustable.
Searching for "Pine" (17 hits) within two words of
"Township" (1,611 hits) yields six hits including "Pine Grove
Township" and "Pine Creek Township."

Another nice feature is that once a page on the hit list has been explored,
the bolded text returns to normal so that the unexamined pages are more obvious.
Bookmarking the entries is easy and utilizes user-defined labels.

This part of the published Pennsylvania Archives series certainly has been
made much simpler, obtainable, and infinitely more searchable with the
convenience of this product.

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